YSR Navasakam – In an attempt to uplift and empower the Citizens of Andhra Pradesh, the Government of the State keeps on putting efforts continuously. The Citizens of State of Andhra Pradesh as well as entire Country is well aware of the Social Welfare activities that the State Government undertakes to smoothen the daily life of the people. This time, the Andhra Pradesh Government has launched the Navaskam portal. The portal is launched by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Sh. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. This portal is another major step taken by the State in the journey of digitization.
YSR Navasakam portal provides information of all the Social Welfare Schemes designed and executed by the State Government for its citizens. The Schemes are dedicated to specific sections of the society that needs to be uplifted for their welfare. Few Schemes are run for Students welfare, few for the backward class communities, certain schemes are specifically dedicated to the females of the State to encourage them for generating sources of income for them, others are meant for single mothers, widows, senior citizens, auto rickshaw, taxi drivers, weavers, Imams, Pastors, Archakas, cattle farmers and many others.
This article by our team gives you a brief of all the schemes covered under the YSR Navasakam portal, how to access this platform, how will it be beneficial for you as a citizen as well as a Secretariat Staff person, which scheme forms are available online and how to download these, what is the procedure followed by the Government in identifying you as an eligible beneficiary, we have covered everything here in detail. So, read this detailed article till the end.
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Andhra Pradesh YSR Navasakam portal
Andhra Pradesh YSR Navasakam portal is unified portal developed to know and apply for the Social Welfare Schemes run by the Andhara Pradesh Government digitally. As we know, every Scheme is not meant for every citizen. There are schemes particularly for specific sections of Society. However, the primary objective of YSR Navasakam is only to uplift the society as a whole, to generate sources of livelihood for the needy and deserving, to improve the living standards of the Below Poverty Line families, to brighten the future of the State by financially helping the students with their educational expenditure.
By accessing this portal, the eligible beneficiaries can get to know about which scheme is meant for them. They can verify their eligibility, download the respective forms. YSR Navasakam not only gives the benefit to its citizens, but also to the officials, the Secretariat Staff who run the entire mechanism of identification of beneficiaries. The officials can login the website, know their Mandal whether in rural or urban area, their ward number etc.
YSR Navasakam covers a total of 12 (twelve) schemes under this Portal. YSR Navasakam portal was launched on 20th November, 2019 by the Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy. We have explained all the 12 schemes of the Government in this YSR Navasakam article. All the important links of the website are also given in the end of the article. Read the article for complete clarity on this topic.
Key Features of YSR Navasakam
| Name of the article | YSR Navaskam |
| Introduced by | Government of Andhra Pradesh State CM Sh. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
| Initiated in | Andhra Pradesh |
| Introduced on | 20th November 2019 |
| Beneficiaries | Citizens of Andhra Pradesh |
| Purpose of Portal | To develop a mechanism for providing benefits of State Schemes to its Citizens |
| Number of Schemes Offered | Twelve (listed in article below ) |
| Official website | http://navasakam.ap.gov.in/ |
| Article Category | State Government Scheme Andhra Pradesh |
Purpose of YSR Navasakam Portal
The primary motive of starting the YSR Navasakam Portal is to make the State Schemes available to every citizen of the Andhra Pradesh. The State initiates a number of Scheme, however, due to the formalities involved in availing the scheme, every citizen doesn’t get benefit of it. With the YSR Navasakam Portal, the beneficiaries can know about every scheme in detail that is run by the Govt. for them. The Scheme connects every section of society to the Govt. The purpose is to connect the rural section as well as urban section of Andhra Pradesh with the Govt. by means of this portal. Hence, the major objective of launching the YSR Navasakam portal is to bring simplicity in the procedure of getting benefit of Andhra Pradesh Government Schemes.
Further, this is also to give rise to paperless governance. Here, citizens can fill up forms to apply for the schemes online in an easy and comfortable manner.
Benefits
As we have explained the basic purpose of launching this portal, it is clear that the entire system of YSR Navasakam is to benefit its citizens. Now, we will explain how the citizens get benefit with YSR Navasakam portal.
- YSR Navasakam is a one stop solution where the citizens can get details on the social welfare schemes and programs launched for its citizens
- One can easily check whether they are eligible for the scheme of not
- Time saving of citizens as using YSR Navasakam platform there is no need to visit the Government offices and wait in long queues to get forms
- Fast execution of Citizens applications
- With digitization, there are no chances of corruption or any ill practice by wrong officials.
- Government itself identifies its beneficiaries following the procedure mentioned in YSR Navasakam and give door step service to provide benefit of Social Schemes to the eligible citizens
Schemes under YSR Navasakam
Andhra Pradesh portal ‘navasakam.ap.gov.in’ provides a number of benefits to the citizens residing in the state. Presently, the State Government has included total Twelve welfare schemes under the YSR Navasakam. We have listed the same below:
| S.No | Name of YSR Navasakam Scheme |
| I | YSR Cheyutha |
| II | YSR Pension Kanuka Card |
| III | YSR Aarogyasri Card |
| IV | YSR Kapu Nestham |
| V | Jagananna Amma Vodi |
| VI | YSR Sunna Vaddi Scheme |
| VII | YSR Nethanna Nestham |
| VIII | Jagananna Vidya Deevena (RTF) & Jagananna Vasathi Deevena (MTF) |
| IX | YSR Vahan Mitra |
| X | Rice Card |
| XI | Honorarium – Imams, Pastors, Muazams, and Archakas |
| XII | Financial Assistance to Nayee Brahmins, Rajakas, and Tailors |
Details of YSR Navasakam Schemes
YSR Cheyutha Scheme – YSR Navasakam portal
YSR Cheyutha Scheme is for improving the contribution of women in the Andhra Pradesh economy. The Scheme is initiated by the CM of State to provide financial help to women with which they can generate their own source of income. The Scheme is included in the YSR Navasakam portal. Govt dedicates this scheme to the women who are from the minority communities or category women i.e SC, ST or OBC. The women can get a total amount of Rs.75,000 in total period of 4 years. Thus, women get an amount of Rs.18,750/- each year till 4 yrs to the eligible women. The Scheme is State Sponsored Scheme to encourage the cattle related activities in the State. An estimated budget of Rs.17 crore has been declared to be spent on this Scheme
Eligibility Criteria:
- Scheme is for women only
- Women should be in the age group of 45-60 years
- Women should be from minority communities/SC/ST/OBC
- The money can be used for doing cattle farming business.
YSR Pension Kanuka Card – YSR Navasakam portal
This Scheme under YSR Navasakam is to provide Social Security benefit in the form of pension to the citizens
- In this, the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh offers pension Kanuka cards to the citizens
- The Scheme is for the Senior Citizens of State i.e. those above 60 years of age, single women, physically challenged, transgenders, cobblers, fisherpersons, Antiretroviral therapy (ART) patient or Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown etiology (CKDU patient)
- People living in families where the family income is lower than Rs.10,000 per month in rural Andhra Pradesh and Rs.12,000/- in urban area of Andhra Pradesh
- In terms of land, persons whose land owning is lower than 3 acres of wet land or 10 acres of dry land or 10 acres combined of wet and dry land
- In terms of electricity consumption, the electricity utility should be lower than 300 units
- A family where no one is a Government Servant or pensioner
- The Sanitary workers are eligible even if they are Govt. Servant
- Family should not own a 4 wheeler vehicle (but can have a taxi, auto or tractor)
- Family who doesn’t fall under the tax paying category
- For urban people, one who doesn’t own any property or the property ownership is lower than 750 sft of built up area
YSR Arogyasri Card – YSR Navasakam portal
Under this, the Government of Andhra Pradesh provides health treatments to the citizens of States in certain listed hospitals at zero cost. They can also claim health insurance benefits. The Scheme under YSR Navasakam is for the Below Poverty Line families as per the ration card records of the State. The diseases covered are serious diseases and medical emergency cases.
YSR Kapu Nestham – YSR Navasakam portal
This scheme is to financially strengthen the women by providing monetary assistance to them. Govt. gives an amount of Rs.15,000/- each year to the women for a total of 5 years. Thus, women get a total amount of Rs.75,000/- . The Scheme of YSR Navasakam works on improving the standard of living of the women belonging to Kapu, Ontari, Baljia, Telaga communities. This help is to generate sources of livelihood for the women of these communities
Eligibility Criteria:
- Only woman can be a beneficiary under the Scheme
- Should lie in the age group of 45-60 years
- She must be from the Kapu, Balija, Ontari or Telaga communities
Jagananna Amma Vodi – YSR Navasakam portal
Jagananna Amma Vodi is a leading Scheme launched by the Government of Andhra Pradesh covered under YSR Navasakam
- The Scheme is launched under Navaratnalu.
- It aims to provide monetary help to the mothers/ identified female guardian who are in the Below Poverty Line section of State.
- The Scheme is not caste, creed, category specific.
- The primary objective is to help the mother in managing the financial expenditure on the School education of her child/children
YSR Sunna Vaddi Scheme – YSR Navasakam portal
In this scheme, the government proposes to help ladies who have taken advance amount to start business of their own. The Government of Andhra Pradesh helps the borrowers by paying interest amount on the outstanding loan amount taken from the Self Help Groups. The prime objective of including it under YSR Navasakam is to help the deserving citizens so that they start their own source of livelihood. By paying interest amount, the Govt shares the financial burden on these budding business persons.
YSR Nethanna Nestham – YSR Navasakam portal
This Scheme launched by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Sh. Jagan Mohan Reddy is also to offer financial help. Under this, Govt. offers monetary help to weavers who have a family culture of handloom work. The traditional weavers get an amount of Rs.24,000/- in an year that they can invest in acquiring modernized weaving equipment. The Scheme under YSR Navasakam aims to uplift the power loom sector of the State. The Department of handlooms and Textiles is the designated authority to monitor the implementation of this scheme.
Eligibility Criteria:-
- The beneficiary has to be from BPL category as per ration card records with the Govt.
- The benefit is restricted for one handloom only.
Jagananna Vidya Deevena(RTF)
In this program of YSR Navasakam, the Government of Andhra Pradesh issues Vidya Deevena Card to the Students and reimburses complete fee to the students. The students have to enroll themselves for studying in Polytechnics and Industrial Training Institutes (ITI). The course should be a Degree and higher level programs from Government or Government aided colleges.
Jagananna Vasathi Deevena(MTF)
In this program of YSR Navasakam, the Government of Andhra Pradesh issues Vasathi Deevena card to the students of Polytechnics and Industrial Training Institutes. Government provides financial help of Rs.20,000/- a year to meet the food and hostel expenses. Students have to enroll themselves for studying a Degree level course or higher courses in the institutes notified by Govt.
YSR Vahan Mitra – YSR Navasakam portal
The Scheme aims to help the auto and taxi drivers of the Andhra Pradesh. Under this Scheme in YSR Navasakam, the auto and taxi drivers who fulfill the beneficiary criteria as per the Government get monetary assistance of Rs.10,000/- per year. The motive is to enable the beneficiaries to bear the expenses of maintaining the vehicle and other fees like insurance premium of vehicle, license renewal fees etc.
Rice Card – YSR Navasakam portal
Rice Card is started by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. In this, Government identifies the beneficiaries who are eligible for Rice Cards. The Eligibility criteria for issuing Rice cards to the beneficiaries is as follows:
- The beneficiary has to be resident citizen of Andhra Pradesh
- The monthly family income as per YSR Navasakam should not be more than:
- Rs.10,000/- (beneficiaries of rural areas)
- Rs.12,000/- (beneficiaries of urban areas)
- In terms of Land holding:
- Wetland: should be owing land of less than 3 acres
- Dry land: should be owning land of less than 10 acres
- A total of not more than 10 acres of both wet and dry land
- Family consumption of electricity should be less than 300 units of a month
- There should not be any Govt Servant in family (no Govt. pensioner)
- Family should not be possessing four-wheeler vehicle (taxi, auto, tractor allowed)
- No member in the family should fall in the tax paying category
- For beneficiary from urban areas, family should not be holding property greater than 750 sq. feet
Honorarium to Imams, Muazams, Pastors and increase in salaries to Archakas
In this Scheme given in YSR Navasakam, the Government has laid criteria to identify the Pastors, Muazzins, Imams and Archakas. The Government offers honorarium to these identified beneficiaries. The Scheme is to enhance the salaries of Archakas. The authorities conducts verification to identify the deserving beneficiaries for offering allowance.
Financial Assistance to Nayee Brahmins, Rajakas and Tailors
This Scheme of YSR Navasakam focuses on the Nayee Brahmins, Rajakas and Tailors. Under this scheme of YSR Navasakam, the eligible Nayee Brahmins, Rajakas and Tailors get financial help of Rs.10,000/- in a year.
Eligibility Criteria:
- The beneficiary has to be from Backward Class Community
- The person is in Below Poverty Line Category and has a white ration card in their name as per the Government records
- The beneficiary should have a registered shop/ establishment in their name
- Nayee Brahmins should be in the occupation of a Barber
- Rajakas should be in the occupation of Dhobis.
AP Adarana 2 Scheme – YSR Navasakam portal
The Scheme of YSR Navasakam portal aims to modernize the work of craftsmen of Andhra Pradesh. The Craftsmen get motivation in the form of sponsorships to them for their work. The Government proposes to give 70% sponsorship to those craftsmen who display modernized craft work. The vision is to encourage the level of creativity of the craftsmen by using modernized techniques.
YSR Navasakam Portal Services
The YSR Navasakam is dedicated to the Citizens of Andhra Pradesh. Broadly there are six sections of YSR Navasakam website. We have shared these sections of website here with you:
- Download : This section of the YSR Navasakam portal gives the option to download following forms:
- Volunteer Daily Survey Performa
- JVD Fee Reimbursement Proforma
- YSR Arogyasri Proforma
- YSR Vahana Mitra Proforma
- YSR Pension Kanuka
- Guidelines: This section of YSR Navasakam portal has complete details on the revised guidelines and eligibility criteria for identifying beneficiaries to release the benefits and verification so that the deserving are benefitted
- Know your secretariat: In this section of YSR Navasakam website, you can identify the secretariat on the basis of your District & Mandal details.
- Login : The login procedure of YSR Navasakam is detailed in this article below
- Secretariat staff mapping: This section of YSR Navasakam website gives information to staff persons of Secretaritat on the basis of District, mandal, ward etc
- Timeline: The timeline of survey in respect of each activity is specified in this section of – YSR Navasakam website
Procedure Followed for Identifying beneficiaries
Preparatory Arrangements
- The Departments monitoring the Schemes distribute the pre-populated survey forms among the volunteers through District Collectors of the respective area
- In case of non-availability of pre-populated formats, the officers at District Level distributes the survey forms to volunteers
- The guidelines are provided regarding the eligibility criteria and procedure followed for identifcation of beneficiaries is formulated
- The District level authorities recognizes the Mandal/ Urban Local Bodies for imparting training to them
- Training of Mandals/ Urban Local Bodies who give further training to volunteers
- Municipal level authority makes suitable arrangements for saving and arrangement of data received
Training to Volunteers
- District Collectors give a single day training to the Mandal/ Urban Level bodies by explaining the guidelines of identifying beneficiaries
- Municipal level Authorities give training to the Village level and other volunteers through the trained Mandal/ Urban Level bodies
- Arrangements like survey formats, pre-populated formats etc are given to the volunteers during their training.
- District Level officers are assigned the duty to check the training work in process
- The District Level Officers further appointment supervisors to monitor the progress of work in each village
- Thus, All the District Level Officers, Mandal/ Urban Level Bodies, supervisory teams, volunteers get training for performing their duties
Conducting of House Hold survey
- Volunteers prepare a schedule for conducting surveys in the households of their area.
- Prior notice to households to be present for survey that day
- One volunteer each day covers an average of five(5) households in rural areas and maximum 10 (ten ) households in urban areas.
- The survey involves giving door step service to the households.
- Pre-populated forms are already with the volunteers
- Volunteers first explain the Social welfare scheme of the State to the households
- Thereafter, checking is done to verify the eligibility of the eligible beneficiaries
- The pre-populated proforma or survey proforma are time to time provided to the volunteers by the Village / Ward secretariat authorities
- These Village/ Ward Secretariat persons also collect the information or data collected by the volunteers and submit it to the Mandal Parishad Development Officers or Municipal Corporations
- The Mandal Parishad Development Officers or Municipal Corporations take care that sufficient arrangements are available to conduct the survey smoothly
- The comparison of data collected with the Government records to confirm that no household is left without survey
- The survey data is submitted to the Village / Ward Secretariat functionaries on daily basis.
- No survey is done for certain schemes like YSR SunnaVaddi, YSR NethannaNestham and Honororium to Imams, Muazzins, Pastors and Archakas. For this, the data available with the Departments is considered confirmed
Computerization of field data
- The data of ineligible households as per the information in the pre-populated data is entered in the computerized format as required by the Administration
- Those who are not eligible are double verified so that none of the deserving household is left out
- Now, on confirmation the data of all the eligible and in-eligible cases is informed to the Village / Ward Secretariat.
- Computerization of data for Cases where pre-populated data is not with the volunteers
- AP Centre for Financial Systems & Services gives the necessary facilities for data recording
- Mandal Parishad Development Officers or Municipal Corporations are the entities who responsibly confirm about the careful computerization of data
- Hence, entire computerization work is done in the supervision of Mandal Parishad Development Officers or Municipal Corporations
Draft-eligible members lists for Social Audit
- The list of eligible members for YSR Navasakam which is generated for each scheme is published in the Village / Ward secretariats.
- No more than 3 days after the publishing of results is given to raise objections in case of any mistake or issues.
- Corrections if any on the basis of objections is done and final lists are given in the GramaSabha / Ward Sabha.
Grama Sabha / Ward Sabha for Social Audit
- The eligible members are finalized in the Grama/Ward Sabha that are held in the Village/ Ward Secretariats
- The beneficiaries finalized and the guidelines followed for identifying the beneficiaries is presented for Social Audit
- The eligibility criteria for each scheme and the procedure followed for identification of beneficiaries is also made available clearly for Audit
Forgot Password of YSR Navasakam portal
There may be a case where you forgot your password. In order to recover the password in YSR Navasakam website, you need to follow these steps:
- Visit the official website navasakam.ap.gov.in
- On the homepage of website, in the top menu bar, there is option login
- Click on login
- There is option forgot password. Click on it
- Now, enter User id and choose the option to Send OTP
- Mention the OTP received in the column on screen, set the new password & confirm this new password by re-entering it in the space given
- Now, type the captcha and choose the option ‘reset password’
- Your password of YSR Navasakam is changed
- Now login with your User ID and new password on YSR Navasakam
What if Mobile Number doesn’t Match
Sometimes on login, you receive a notification that your mobile number does not match. This can be because of the following:
- If you are entering mobile number that is different from the one with which you registered on this portal
- It may also be because your Mobile Number is not Mapped with your User Id
- In such a case, ask your Mandal Parishad Development Officer to do the needful and re-map your mobile number
- Once your mobile number is updated as per your request, you will not receive this message.
How to Download Application Forms in YSR Navasakam
In the article above, you get to know about the schemes covered in the YSR Navasakam portal. The application forms for certain schemes are also available for downloading. You can download the same by doing these simple steps:
- Firstly, visit the official website navasakam.ap.gov.in
- Check your eligibility from YSR Navasakam website for different schemes
- Now, if eligible and interested, you can download the form
- For this, click on download in the top menu bar of website homepage
- A rectangle bar opens up beneath the downloads as drop down bar
- Click on the form that you want to download and eligible for
- This downloads the form in your computer/mobile device as applicable
What is Post Code and Secretariat Code
Your User ID to login YSR Navasakam is consists of your Secretariat Code & Post-Code. You can check the post code on the YSR Navasakam website separately for Rural and Urban Secretariat i.e. Village Secretariat and Rural Secretariat
How to Login in YSR Navasakam
- Visit the official website navasakam.ap.gov.in
- On the home page of the website, in the top menu bar there is option “Login”
- Click on Login
- Now, enter User ID, Password and captcha code as asked on the Screen
- Click the Login
How to Know your Secretariat in YSR Navasakam
You can know about your secretariat also on the YSR Navasakam website. This is how you can know about it:
- Visit the official website of YSR Navasakam
- On the homepage in the top menu bar, there is option Know Your Secretariat
- Here, you can know the number of District, Mandals, name of mandals in Village and Urban areas, Secretariat Code, Secretariat Name and ward number also
- You can also download and print the details by clicking on the print option in the bottom of the details page
Contact Details – YSR Navasakam portal
If you have come across any issues in regard to YSR Navasakam platform or want to gather some more information, you can contact the representatives of Navasakam Portal. For this, the State Government of Andhra Pradesh has given an email ID- info@ysrnavasakam.in. You can contact the authorities by sending mail at this address with your queries.